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▸ noun: A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
▸ noun: A guide book for maritime navigation.
▸ noun: An instrument for detecting the compass error.
▸ noun: (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
▸ noun: (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
▸ noun: A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
▸ noun: Something serving as a test or trial.
▸ noun: (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
▸ noun: (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
▸ noun: (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
▸ noun: (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
▸ noun: (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
▸ noun: A pilot light.
▸ noun: One who flies a kite.
▸ noun: A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
▸ adjective: Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
▸ adjective: Used to control or activate another device.
▸ adjective: Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
▸ verb: (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
▸ verb: (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
▸ verb: (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
▸ verb: (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
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test pilot,
commercial pilot,
crop duster,
airline pilot,
fighter pilot,
naval aviator,
space shuttle pilot,
balloonist,
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